Happy Thanksgiving! We had a small Thanksgiving meal at our home for Thanksgiving and our church is having a potluck Thanksgiving on Saturday (which I'm looking forward to!).
The INK Newspaper (my other website and company) is having a sale for Thanksgiving. From November 24 to the 28, enjoy 20% off your order by using the code: THANKS20
I just wrote an article called "Why Study Geography?" It's on my blog on the pages. It's a short article. If you have time, take a look at it.
I just finished 2 books, which are both on the ink website (www.inknewspaper.net) and will soon be available on the Living Book Press (www.livingbookpress.com). Here are the descriptions:
The Story of Our Continent: Australia
This book goes through Australia’s history, from the Aboriginals who first lived there, to Captain Cook, the different explorers and expeditions, through World War I and II, up until today (2023). It tells the history of Australia through stories with photographs and some famous paintings to help illustrate them.
The Geography of Australia and New Zealand for Kids
Explore the places, deserts, mountains, sea, animals, and people of Australia and New Zealand through this book. This book goes through each state of Australia (including Tasmania Island) and then New Zealand. Included are map questions, review questions, famous artists of Australia (whose drawings and paintings help Australia come to life), and interviews with people who live in some of Australia’s cities and have some unique jobs. You’ll need a good atlas or map as you go through this book to answer the map questions.
We went to the countryside for the day over the weekend and went hiking a little. It's hard to find places to go hiking; we were just going in between fields. It was a beautiful day.
I've been going through an old book from the 1930s. I "rescued" it because it was going to be trashed a few years ago. I'm just now getting to look at it; it's a collection of English literature. There are some really great illustrations, signed "MW." I kept trying to figure out who "MW" was and so I finally looked t up: Milo Winter, the famous illustrator! He illustrated a copy of Aesop's Fables. Later on he signed the pictures with his full name. Here are some samples (some are compared with the literature book and Aesop's Fables:
The kids were super happy to wake up this morning to snow. They had lots of fun in the snow and I got some great pictures.
The local museum has a day in the year when people can bring in their apples to press into apple cider (apple juice). Today was that day and...
